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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
manufactures, our people must study their
markets and endeavor to supply exactly what
is wanted. If these requisites are observed
the United States should become as great
a supplying market for musical instruments
as it is now for so many of our manufac-
tures.
In the countries south of us—where Ger-
many has practically a monopoly, thanks to
our inactivity—American musical instru-
ments should command a much larger appre-
ciation and would if properly exploited. Sat-
isfaction with ourselves is not the best attri-
bute. With a larger foreign trade in musi-
cal instruments, a commercial depression at
home, which, we trust, is far distant, could
not be as injurious a factor as it might be,
with the conditions which now prevail exist-
ent.
DEDERICK'S BIG CASH SALE.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean, after an ex-
tended canvass of opinion among leading
musicians, has selected one grand and two
upright Weber and two Wheelock pianos,
which were purchased for cash from Louis
Dederick, the representative of the Weber
interests in Chicago, which will be offered
in a prize contest to be inaugurated next
week by that paper. The instruments will
be on exhibition until the contest is closed
at the Inter-Ocean office. The sale of five
instruments for spot cash is an occurrence
that has naturally merited congratulations
for Mr. Dederick.
The instruments illustrated and described
are style 3, style 4, style 5, style 7 in up-
rights ; style 30 grand, and style 40 orchestral
grand. These instruments are made in oak,
walnut and mahogany veneered. As their
architectural beauty and worth have been
dilated upon in these oolumns before, it is
unnecessary to say more than that they are
in sympathy with the refined and musical soul,
so well exemplified in scales of rare evenness.
The closing pages of the Everett catalogue
are devoted to the matter of price, tuning,
and proper care of the piano, as well as let-
ters from that wizard of the keyboard, Gab-
rilowitsch, and Richard Burmeister—two
artists who have been identified very promi-
nently with the Everett concert grand in
recital, and with distinguished orchestras in
all parts of the country.
The introductory announcement of the
Everett Co. gives an outline succinctly, withal
comprehensively, of the Everett policy, and
it is worth quoting:
THE NEW EVERETT CATALOGUE.
A Beautiful Production Abounding in Information
of the Utmost Value to All Interested in these
Artistic Creations—The Everett Pianos.
A volume of rare elegance is the new cat-
alogue just sent out by the Everett Piano
Co., illustrating and treating in detail of the
artistic creations which they manufacture.
The outlines of Everett piano construction
are described in detail with marginal illus-
trations, while the matter of tone and touch,
as well as factory facilities, are given in-
telligent consideration, showing that supe-
rior tone quality is a distinctly uniform fea-
ture of the Everett product. In this con-
nection, we read:
The production and transmission of musical tone,
by means of hammers, strings, sound-board and
other parts of the piano are governed by well-de-
fined acoustic laws.
To these laws we adhere in proper sequence in
our Grand and Upright Pianos, but the tone of our
piano is so woven and interwoven with its every
detail of construction that on no single feature do
we entirely depend to produce the most musically
satisfactory results.
Our pianos combine to the fullest degree a pow-
erful, clear and rich tone, a rare, sweet, delicate,
sympathetic singing quality of prolonged duration,
and that feeling of depth or reserve possibility
which always appeals to the musician.
Our scale has the same tone character through-
out. It is delightful in evenness, with resonant
bass, a middle register firm and musical, and a
treble of liquid brilliancy; all so graded that a dif-
ferent shade of tone is produced by each varying
stroke of the keys.
We do not sacrifice volume of tone in producing
limpidity, nor do we sacrifice for the sake of deli-
cacy of tone refinement anything of the richness
and nobility of the tone.
A piano of impure tone naturally is injurious to
the musical ear; but if the musical ear be unformed
what can be more harmful than impure tone?
All pianos made by us are of one standard—the
highest. Our various styles differ from each other,
not in quality, but in size and design.
The Everett Piano represents all that is best of
human endeavor in piano construction on broadest
and most advanced ideas; it is a recognized art
product appealing to the cultured musical taste.
It has won the highest attainable place in the esti-
mation of those who have carefully studied it. Not
only musicians, but all those who are ever ready to
acknowledge marked superiority have recognized
its superlative qualities and voluntarily paid it un-
stinted praise. This result has been accomplished
because the Everett is a wonderful and original
creation, imitating no other piano, but possessing
many features entirely its own.
Every piano made by us after this date, is war-
ranted under our signed guarantee throughout the
ENTIRE LIFETIME of the piano.
The Everett Piano Co.
THE SMITH & NIXON PIANO MFG. CO.
10 and 12 E. 4th Street
CINCINNATI, O.
Manufacturers of
PIANOS OF THE HIGHEST
GRADES
^•Reasonable Inducements offered to desirable
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